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Assisted Suicide
<view this essay>.... end their life, you will probably end up in jail. I feel that being forced to live in intolerable conditions is the real crime. People such as Dr. Kevorkian should not be punished for doing a good deed. He should in fact be praised for heeling the pain of a dying person. Having to live a life where every passing minute is dreaded is something that no person should have to experience. Money is a big issue to everyone whether they admit or not. Should a person and their family be forced to spend thousands of dollars a day on medical expenses just so the patient can continue living a life he doesn't even want to keep? This medical treatment, in some in .....
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Male Circumcision: A Social And Medical Misconception
<view this essay>.... community further reinforced these beliefs by reporting the incidence
of hygiene-related urogenital disorders to be higher in uncircumcised men.
Circumcision is now a societal norm in the United States. Routine
circumcision is the most widely practiced pediatric surgery and an estimated one
to one-and-a-half million newborns, or 80 to 90 percent of the population, are
circumcised. (Lund, 1990) Despite these statistics, circumcision still remains a
topic of great debate. The medical community is examining the need for a
surgical procedure that is historically based on religious and cultural doctrine
and not of medical necessity. Possible complic .....
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The Trip: Journey To The Center Of Terence McKenna's Inner Self.
<view this essay>.... hosted by the Lucky Charms leprechaun”. He then goes on to tell
how this trip affected his life and how it was such a complete shock that it
caused the literal turning inside-out of his intellectual universe. He was
knocked off his feet and set himself the goal of understanding this. His quest
led him all over the world, exploring traditions of magic-religious drug usage.
In the years since his fateful encounter with the self-transforming machine
elves of hyperspace, McKenna has fashioned his mental Merzbau on the New Age
lecture circuit, where he has earned the benediction of the psychedelic High
Priest himself, who dubbed him “the Timothy Leary of the .....
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Evaluating Methods Of Contraception
<view this essay>.... to prevent pregnancy. Today, men and women want birth control that is safe, effective, affordable, and convenient to use. And now more than ever we have a variety of choices that come close to these ideals. People often need different types of contraceptives to suit the different stages in their lives. A method that is useful for preventing pregnancies temporarily is not necessarily adequate for the woman who wants to stop child bearing completely. And a contraceptive that works well for someone who has sexual intercourse only occasionally may not be sufficiently effective for those who have sex often.
Various methods of contraception are available in th .....
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Hypnosis In Psychology
<view this essay>.... approach focuses primarily on the
power of the hypnotist over his/her subject. The out-dated though still used,
standardized approach, is rather limited due to the fact that it considers a
person either hypnotizable or not. In contrast to the authoritarian and
standardized approaches, the utilization approach, stresses the interaction
nature of the hypnotic relationship. These approaches have many dissimilarities
and thus are utilized for different practices.
The authoritarian approach emphasizes the power of the hypnotist.
This approach, spawned by Mesmer and others, is still widely exploited by stage
hypnotists and is consequently often t .....
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Sleepwalking
<view this essay>.... and an extension of dreaming. It is now understood to be a complex combination of one or more factors, such as psychological and physiological factors as well as chemical interference (such as alcohol and drug abuse). The source of the behavior varies according to age with the younger sufferers having more physiological problems which they grow out of, while with older people, stress and substance abuse play a larger role.
is most common among children from the ages of 4 to 12. Estimates for the percentage of the population which will sleepwalk at least once in their lifetime range quite a bit. Some sources say that most children will walk in their .....
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AIDS Is A Killer
<view this essay>.... stream and searches out the lymphocytes and T-cells. Aids goes directly to the cells with the CD4 molecule on them. This molecule is naturally occurring in most peoples immune cells, its function is to help the bodies coordination the immune response to a foreign invader by letting the immune cells communicate with the rest of the cells in the body. Next, the Aids virus goes after certain chemokines. Chemokines are proteins or (protein receptors) on the surface of T-cells and microphages, they are used to "talk" to, arouse, and attract cells. There are two variants of chemokines, alpha and beta chemokines. Among these there are many different chemokines fr .....
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Self-Esteem
<view this essay>.... and chances are that person overreact to insults and criticism. This is exactly what Begley is trying to bring attention to in this article. One example that Begley's paper is of a kid in Mississippi who killed his mother and two of his classmates and is found by three different psychologists to exude narcissistic traits.
It's not just a coincidence that narcissism is connected with aggression. A study at Case Western Reserve University found that "the most narcissistic people were the most 'exceptionally aggressive in the wake of criticism." It could be argued that it is, in fact, the other way around; the most aggressive people tend to be the most .....
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